Datong

Datong is a city in northern Shanxi Province, . A former frontier town and Northern Wei capital, it is best known for the Yungang Grottoes and the Hanging Monastery, as well as numerous religious sites in its redeveloped Ancient City center.
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  • Type: City with 3,320,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Shanxi, China
  • Also known as: “Dagu”, “Đại Đồng, Sơn Tây”, “Datong (Shanxi Sheng, China)”, “Datong City”, “Datun”, “Ta-jen”, “Ta-jen-hsien”, “Ta-ku”, “Ta-t’ung”, “Ta-t’ung-hsien”, “Ta-t’ung-shih”, “ডাটং”, “তাটং”, “দাটং”, and “平城”
  • Neighbors: , , , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Shanhua Temple and Drum Tower.

Buddhist temple
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is a Buddhist temple located in Datong, Shanxi Province, .

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Railway station
Photo: 西安兵马俑, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The railway station is a railway station of Beijing–Baotou railway and Datong–Puzhou railway.

Datong

Latitude
40.0923° or 40° 5′ 32″ north
Longitude
113.2953° or 113° 17′ 43″ east
Population
3,320,000
Elevation
1,054 metres (3,458 feet)
Named after
因大同川而得名，并取“天下大同之意”
IATA airport code
DAT
UN/LOCODE
CN DAT
Open location code
8PGM37RW+W4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244077962
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2037799
Wiki­data ID
Q72877
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Datong” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Datong”
  • Arabic: “داتونغ”
  • Armenian: “Դատուն”
  • Asturian: “Datong”
  • Basque: “Datong”
  • Belarusian: “Датун”
  • Bengali: “তাথুং”
  • Breton: “Datong”
  • Bulgarian: “Датун”
  • Catalan: “Datong”
  • Cebuano: “Datong Shi”
  • Chinese: “Dàtóng Shì”
  • Chinese: “大同”
  • Chinese: “大同市”
  • Croatian: “Datong”
  • Czech: “Ta-tchung”
  • Danish: “Datong”
  • Dutch: “Datong”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “داتونج”
  • Esperanto: “Datong”
  • Esperanto: “Datongo”
  • Finnish: “Datong”
  • French: “Datong”
  • Gan Chinese: “大同市”
  • Georgian: “ტათუნგი”
  • German: “Datong”
  • Greek: “Ντάτονγκ”
  • Gujarati: “ડાટોંગ”
  • Hebrew: “דאטונג”
  • Hindi: “दातुंग”
  • Hindi: “दातोंग”
  • Hungarian: “Tatung”
  • Indonesian: “Datong”
  • Interlingua: “Daido”
  • Interlingua: “Datong”
  • Irish: “Datong”
  • Italian: “Datong”
  • Japanese: “大同市”
  • Kannada: “ಡಾಟೊಂಗ್”
  • Kazakh: “Датун”
  • Kikuyu: “Datong”
  • Korean: “다퉁 시”
  • Korean: “다퉁시”
  • Latvian: “Datonga”
  • Latvian: “Datuna”
  • Lithuanian: “Datongas”
  • Macedonian: “Датонг”
  • Malagasy: “Datong”
  • Malay: “Datong”
  • Marathi: “डाटोंग”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dâi-dùng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tāi-tông-chhī”
  • Mongolian: “Датун”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Datong”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Datong”
  • Norwegian: “Datong”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Datong”
  • Persian: “داتونگ”
  • Polish: “Datong”
  • Portuguese: “Datong”
  • Russian: “Датун”
  • Serbian: “Датунг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Datong”
  • Sinhala: “ඩේටොන්ග්”
  • Slovenian: “Datong”
  • Spanish: “Datong”
  • Swedish: “Datong”
  • Tagalog: “Datong”
  • Tamil: “டாடாங்”
  • Tatar: “Датуң”
  • Telugu: “డాటోంగ్”
  • Thai: “ต้าทง”
  • Turkish: “Datong”
  • Uighur: “داتۇڭ شەھىر”
  • Ukrainian: “Датун”
  • Urdu: “داتونگ”
  • Venetian: “Datong”
  • Vietnamese: “Đại Đồng”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Datong”
  • Welsh: “Datong”
  • Wu Chinese: “大同市”
  • Yue Chinese: “大同”
  • Yue Chinese: “大同市”

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